M 4.5 in Costa Rica on 19 Oct 2021 19:53 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1291085
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 46.62 Km
Lat/Lon: 8.1065 , -83.2424
Event Date: 19 Oct 2021 19:53 UTC
19 Oct 2021 13:53 Local
Exposed Population:
460 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Oct 2021 21:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4 (Panama)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Panama= 4; Costa Rica= 2.7

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000fvyw Scaled population (vector) 5.26  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.87  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 138 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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HERCULES — A magnitude 2.8 earthquake was briefly felt in the East Bay early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which had an epicenter about 2 miles southeast of Hercules, occurred at 6:34 a.m. with an ini
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2.8 magnitude earthquake felt in western Contra Costa County2021-10-23T17:17+0200.

HERCULES — A magnitude 2.8 earthquake was briefly felt in the East Bay early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which had an epicenter about 2 miles southeast of Hercules, occurred at 6:34 a.m. with an ini
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Roma, 23 ott 10:36 - (Agenzia Nova) - Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 3,7 è avvenuta, nella notte, nella zona costa greca ionica, ad una profondità di sette chilometri. Il terremoto è stato localizzato dalla sala sismica dell'Istituto
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),